African Winter

I am currently sitting in bed with a sweater on, under three blankets, with a heat bag on my feet.

It feels like I am camping; that way you can't quite escape the cold even inside your tent, in your sleeping bag.

The weather outside is like a Canadian Autumn, and I love that type of weather; sun during the day, clear skies, sweater weather. But in Canada, when the sun goes down and you're inside for the night, you can turn on the heat to keep yourself warm.

Not the case in South Africa.

Most of the houses don't have any heating (or air conditioning) and the windows and doors have no weather proofing. Everyone is dependent on space heaters and just bundling up.

I don't quite comprehend why none of these houses have proper heat given winter strikes every year, but I guess it's an expense South Africans feel like they can avoid and they just power through for the two or three months of winter.

As crazy as it sounds, I'll take Canadian winter over South African winter if it means I can have a warm house and beautiful snow. But maybe I'm just feeling nostalgic, or going through a brain freeze...